A new species of trachichthyid fish, Paratrachichthys heptalepis,
is described from 33 specimens that were collected by the U.S. National Marine
Fisheries Service (NMFS), Honolulu Laboratory, in a series of cruises in the
Hawaiian Island s. The depth range of the catches was 50- 255 m. P. heptalepis
is closely related to P. prosthemius Jordan and Fowler, from Japan, and P.
novaezelandicus Kotlyar, from New Zealand.